Friday, November 14, 2008

"Homo-fascism" is a word used by anti-gay opponents asserting that the homosexual lobby is somehow fascist in nature and trying to impose a gay agenda on the world, as well as restrict the speech of those who are opposed to homosexuality and transsexuality.

I like this term, it has a nice ring to it. I keep repeating it over and over in front of the mirror trying to make my face express the disgust I feel while saying a "word" that has a certain gay lisp value to it. Really though, is speaking up and speaking loud silencing the homophobic, or have those of us speaking up started to outnumber the homophobic?

Somehow the word reminds me of the general tendency in the US these days to accuse anyone we disagree with as being fascist, as in the examples cited by the previous poster. I remember for a while lots of people on campus would protest the Bush administration talking about how fascist they were. I always wanted to say, "If they really were fascist, you couldn't protest in broad daylight without a serious government crackdown." Not to say I'm such a fan of the Bush administration. Maybe it's kind of like comparing people to hiter.